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In the paper, we consider the Cauchy problem for a generalized Degasperis–Procesi equation. We prove that the data-to-solution map is not uniformly continuous.
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1 Introduction
In this paper, we study a generalized Degasperis–Procesi equation introduced by Novikov in [1]:
It was shown in [1] that Eq. (1.1) possesses a hierarchy of local higher symmetries and the first non-trivial one is \(u_{\tau }=\partial _x[(1-\partial _xu)]^{-1}\).
Equation (1.1) belongs to the following class [1]:
which has attracted much attention on the possible integrable members of (1.2).
The first well-known integrable member of (1.2) is the Camassa–Holm (CH) equation [2]:
The CH equation can be regarded as a shallow water wave equation [2,3,4]. It is completely integrable [2, 5], has a bi-Hamiltonian structure [6, 7], and admits exact peaked solitons of the form \(ce^{-|x-ct|}\), \(c>0\), which are orbitally stable [8]. It is worth mentioning that the peaked solitons present the characteristic for the traveling water waves of greatest height and largest amplitude and arise as solutions to the free-boundary problem for incompressible Euler equations over a flat bed, cf. [9,10,11,12]. The local well-posedness for the Cauchy problem of the CH equation in Sobolev spaces and Besov spaces was discussed in [13,14,15,16,17,18]. It was shown that there exist global strong solutions to the CH equation [13, 14, 19] and finite time blow-up strong solutions to the CH equation [13, 14, 19, 20]. The existence and uniqueness of global weak solutions to the CH equation were proved in [21, 22]. The global conservative and dissipative solutions of CH equation were discussed in [23, 24].
The second well-known integrable member of (1.2) is the Degasperis–Procesi (DP) equation [25]:
The DP equation can be regarded as a model for nonlinear shallow water dynamics, and its asymptotic accuracy is the same as the CH shallow water equation [26]. The DP equation is integrable and has a bi-Hamiltonian structure [27]. An inverse scattering approach for computing n-peakon solutions to the DP equation was presented in [28]. Its traveling wave solutions were investigated in [29, 30]. The local well-posedness of the Cauchy problem of the DP equation in Sobolev spaces and Besov spaces was established in [31,32,33]. Similar to the CH equation, the DP equation has also global strong solutions [34,35,36] and finite time blow-up solutions [33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40]. In addition, it has global weak solutions [36, 37, 40, 41]. Although the DP equation is similar to the CH equation in several aspects, these two equations are truly different. One of the novel features of the DP equation different from the CH equation is that it has not only peakon solutions [27] and periodic peakon solutions [40], but also shock peakons [42] and the periodic shock waves [38].
The third well-known integrable member of (1.2) is the Novikov equation [1]
The most difference between the Novikov equation and the CH and DP equations is that the former one has cubic nonlinearity and the latter ones have quadratic nonlinearity. It was shown that the Novikov equation is integrable, possesses a bi-Hamiltonian structure, and admits exact peakon solutions \(u(t,x)=\pm \sqrt{c}\mathrm{e}^{|x-ct|}\), \(c>0\) [43]. The local well-posedness for the Novikov equation in Sobolev spaces and Besov spaces was studied in [44, 45, 45,46,47]. The global existence of strong solutions was established in [44] under some sign conditions, and the blow-up phenomena of the strong solutions were shown in [47]. The global weak solutions for the Novikov equation were discussed in [48].
The local well-posedness and global existence of strong solutions for the generalized Degasperis–Procesi were studied in [49].
To our best knowledge, Eq. (1.1) can transform into the following equivalent form:
Using this result and the method of approximate solutions, we prove the following non-uniform dependence result.
Theorem 1.1
If \(s>\frac{3}{2}\), then the data-to-solution map for the generalized Degasperis–Procesi equation defined by Cauchy problem (1.3) is not uniformly continuous from any bounded subset in \(H^s\) into \(\mathcal {C}([0, T];H^s)\).
Notations Since all spaces of functions are over \(\mathbb {R}\), for simplicity, we drop \(\mathbb {R}\) in our notations of function spaces if there is no ambiguity.
2 Proof of the main theorem
In this section, we will give the proof of the main theorem. Motivated by Himonas and Holliman [32], we first construct a sequence approximate solutions. Lately, we will show that the distance between approximate solutions and actual solutions is decaying. Finally, we can conclude that Cauchy problem (1.3) is not uniformly continuous.
Lemma 2.1
([50]) For any \(s>0\), there exists a positive constant \(c=c(s)\) such that
For any \(s>\frac{1}{2}\), there exists a positive constant c such that
Lemma 2.2
([50]) Let \(s>\frac{1}{2}\). Assume that \(f_0\in H^s\), \(F\in L^1_T(H^s)\) and \(\partial _xv\in L^1_T(H^{s-1})\). If \(f\in \mathcal {C}([0,T];H^s)\) solves the following 1D linear transport equation:
then there exists a positive constant \(C=C(s)\) such that
where
Lemma 2.3
([32]) Let \(\phi \in S(\mathbb {R})\), \(\delta >0\) and \(\alpha \in \mathbb {R}\). Then for any \(s\ge 0\) we have that
Lemma 2.4
([49]) Let \(s>\frac{3}{2}\) and \(u_0\in H^s\). There exists a positive time \(T=T(||u_0||_{H^s})\) such that (1.2) has a solution \(u\in \mathcal {C}([0,T];H^s)\). Moreover, there exists a constant \(C=C(s)>0\) such that
Proof of the theorem
Let \(\omega \in \{0,1\}\) and \(\varphi \) be a \(C_0(\mathbb {R})\) such that
Let \(\phi \) be a \(C_0(\mathbb {R})\) such that \(\phi (x)\varphi (x)=\varphi (x)\). We introduce the following sequence of high-frequency approximate solutions:
We also define the solution \(u^{\ell ,n}_{\omega }\) which satisfies the following equation with the low-frequency initial data:
Since
then we can find that
Letting \(U^n_{\omega }=u^{h,n}_{\omega }+u^{\ell ,n}_{\omega }\), we obtain \(U^n_{\omega }\) satisfies the following equation:
Now, letting \(V^n_{\omega }\) be the solution of the Cauchy problem for the equation:
Denoting \(W^n_{\omega }=U^n_{\omega }-V^n_{\omega }\), it easy to show that
According to Lemmas 2.3, 2.4, we have for \(0\le \sigma \le s\)
Choosing \(\delta >0\) such that \(s-1-\delta >\frac{1}{2}\), we have \(||f||_{L^\infty }\le ||f||_{H^{s-1-\delta }}\). Therefore, by Lemma 2.1 and (2.1), we have
Now, setting \(\delta <\min \{s-\frac{3}{2},1\}\), it follows from Lemma 2.2 that
According to Lemmas 2.4, we have
which implies
Then, combining (2.1) and (2.2), we have
where
Letting n go to \(\infty \) and using Lemma 2.3, (2.2), (2.3), it follows that
Noticing that \(|\sin t|=\sin t\) when \(t\in [0,\pi ]\), then \(\sin t>0\) in an interval \((0,t_0)\) for some \(0<t_0<\pi \). This together with the fact that
completes the proof of Theorem 1.1. \(\square \)
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Gui, S., Li, J. & Zhu, W. Non-uniform dependence for a generalized Degasperis–Procesi equation. Annali di Matematica 198, 803–810 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10231-018-0799-8
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